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• April 20, 1871: The GOP Congress adopted the Ku Klux Klan Act,
banning the pro-Democrat domestic
terrorist group. Republican President
Grant used this and the Force Act to bring
the KLAN to trial. To which the KLAN
responded to the Republican coming into
the south as Carpet Baggers and warned
them with signs depicting what would
happen to them if the interfered with the
Democratic Klan
• February 28, 1871: The GOP Congress passed the Enforcement Act,
giving black voters federal protection.
• January 26, 1922: The U.S. House adopted Rep. Leonidas Dyer's
(R., Mo.) bill making lynching a federal crime. Filibustering Senate
Democrats killed the measure.
• May 6, 1960: Eisenhower signs the GOP's 1960 Civil Rights Act
after it survived a five-day, five-hour filibuster by 18 Senate
Democrats.